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With tension between countries, Ind-Pak travellers unaffected

While the tension between India and Pakistan after Uri attack can be cut with a knife, it has failed to dampen the spirit of people travelling by the Sada-e-Sarhad Delhi-Lahore bus.

Even after Thursday’s surgical strikes by the Indian Army across the Line of Control (LoC), people of both the countries have been travelling fearlessly by bus with no decline in the number of passengers. On Friday, 15 people, all Pakistani nationals, travelled to Lahore from Delhi and had lunch at the Punjab Tourism-run restaurant at Kartarpur in Jalandhar district. Similarly, 20 people travelled from Lahore to Delhi.

Raj Thakur, an employee at the restaurant, said, “I am serving food to passengers of this bus for the past seven years and Friday was no different. Though there is tension between the two countries, it has not affected the passengers from both the countries.”